“As a result of repelling the UAV attack debris fell on the territory of the SIBUR-Kstovo enterprise, which caused a fire. Firefighters from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations are currently working at the site. There are no casualties, the staff has been moved to a safe distance,” the press service of SIBUR-Kstovo said.
As ASTRA found out, the EP-300 ethylene and propylene production plant caught fire there.
The SIBUR-Kstovo petrochemical plant, as stated on the website, produces ethylene, propylene, benzene, as well as a number of hydrocarbon fractions. At the same time, the Ukrainian media wrote that it produces components for explosives.
According to ASTRA sources, another drone crashed in the same industrial area as SIBUR, near the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery. The drone did not detonate, there was no damage.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the attack on the Nizhny Novgorod region and stated that after the “UAV strike, a powerful fire was recorded on the territory of the facility”. They claim that drones hit the refinery.
In addition, in the morning, two drones fell on a Rosneft facility in the Smolensk region. We are talking about the inactive Rosneft-Smolensknefteprodukt oil depot. According to ASTRA, one of the drones hit an empty tank, another one fell on the territory of an oil depot and did not explode. Another drone damaged the roof of a production workshop at the Rus Snab Kit metalworking enterprise in Tver.
Earlier, ASTRA reported the attack on the 23rd Main Rocket and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense arsenal in the village of Oktyabrsky, Tver region. There were no ammunition in the warehouse at the time of the attack, and he himself was damaged. Three buildings of the military unit were also damaged. In addition to the arsenal, drones attacked the NPS Andreapol oil pumping station of Transneft-Baltika LLC in the village of Erokhino today. The roof of the communication building and the station operator, the filtration pumping station were damaged, there was a spill of petroleum products and a fire, ASTRA sources in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported.
In total, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported about the interception of 104 Ukrainian drones that night: over the Kursk, Bryansk, Smolensk, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaluga, Belgorod, Rostov and Leningrad regions.
